¹And now hear, Jacob my slave, and Israel whom I chose.

²This is what Yahweh said, who made you and formed you from the womb, who will help you: Do not be afraid, my slave Jacob, and Jeshurun whom I chose.

³For I will pour out water on the thirsty and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my spirit on your seed and my blessing on your descendants.

⁴And they will sprout among the grass like willows beside the channels of water.

⁵This one will say, I am Yahweh's, and that one will call out by the name of Jacob, and another will write on his hand, Yahweh's, and will give himself a title by the name of Israel.

⁶This is what Yahweh said, the king of Israel and his redeemer, Yahweh of hosts: I am first and I am last, and besides me there is no God.

⁷And who is like me? Let him call it out, and declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established a people forever; and the things to come, and what will come, let them declare to them.

⁸Do not be in dread, and do not fear; have I not from then made you hear and declared it? And you are my witnesses. Is there a god apart from me? And there is no rock; I know none.

⁹Those who form an idol, all of them are shapeless, and the things they delight in do not profit; and their witnesses, they themselves do not see and do not know, so that they may be ashamed.

¹⁰Who forms a god and casts an idol for no profit?

¹¹Behold, all his companions will be ashamed, and the craftsmen, they are from humankind. Let them gather together, all of them; let them stand up, let them be in dread, let them be ashamed together.

¹²The craftsman of iron, an axe, works it over the coals and forms it with hammers; he works it with the arm of his strength. Also he is hungry, and there is no strength; he has not drunk water, and he grows weary.

¹³The craftsman of wood stretches out a line, outlines it with a stylus, works it with scraping tools, and outlines it with a compass; he makes it like the pattern of a man, like the beauty of a human, to dwell in a house.

¹⁴He cuts down cedars for himself; he takes a cypress and an oak and lets it grow strong for himself among the trees of the forest; he plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow great.

¹⁵And it serves a person for burning; he takes some of them and warms himself; also he kindles a fire and bakes bread; also he makes a god and bows down; he makes it an idol and prostrates himself to it.

¹⁶Half of it he burns in the fire; over half of it he eats flesh, he roasts a roast and is satisfied; also he warms himself and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the light.

¹⁷And the remainder of it he makes into a god, into his idol; he prostrates himself to it, and bows down and prays to it, and says, Deliver me, for you are my god.

¹⁸They do not know and they do not discern, for he has plastered over their eyes, so they cannot see, and their hearts, so they cannot act wisely.

¹⁹He does not bring it back to his heart, and there is no knowledge and no understanding to say, Half of it I burned in a fire, and also I baked bread on its coals; I roast flesh and eat it; and the rest of it shall I make into an abomination? Shall I prostrate myself to a block of wood?

²⁰He grazes on ashes; a heart that was deceived has turned him aside, and he will not deliver his being, and he will not say, Is it not falsehood in my right hand?

²¹Remember these things, Jacob, and Israel, for you are my slave; I formed you, you are a slave to me; Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

²²I have wiped out your transgressions like a dark cloud, and your sins like a cloud mass; return to me, for I have redeemed you.

²³Shout for joy, O skies, for Yahweh has acted; raise a shout, O lower parts of the land; break forth, O mountains, into a ringing cry, O forest and every tree in it; for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and in Israel he will show his beauty.

²⁴This is what Yahweh said, your redeemer, the one who formed you from the womb: I am Yahweh, who made everything, who stretched out the skies alone, who hammered out the land by myself;

²⁵who breaks up the signs of the empty talkers and makes fools of the diviners, who turns the wise backward, and their knowledge he makes foolish,

²⁶who makes stand the word of his slave and completes the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, She will be dwelt in, and of the cities of Judah, They will be rebuilt, and her ruins I will raise up;

²⁷who says to the deep, Be parched, and your rivers I will dry up;

²⁸who says of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and all my desire he will complete; and saying of Jerusalem, She will be rebuilt, and of the temple, It will be founded.